The president of the Sugarcane Industry Association (Unica), Evandro Gussi, said that global production of ethanol needs to be diversified so that it will not run the risk of crises like the one experienced in 1973 by the oil market when the great oil producers were geographically restricted to the Middle East. During the event Sustainable Mobility? Ethanol Talks II India, Gussi called for even greater cooperation between Brazil and India, the two largest sugar-producing countries in the world. Both countries seek to intensify the targeting and diversion of sugarcane for the production of ethanol, at the expense of sweeteners, thus meeting the global demand for less polluting fuels, and fewer greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere. “The world will benefit from more countries producing ethanol. We will not have an efficient global ethanol market with few suppliers. Brazil can increase its production, perhaps the United States, definitely India. But that won’t be enough. Production has to grow in Asia, in Africa, where biofuel is starting to emerge.”
Sources: Agencia Safras/Nova Cana (*Translated by Ia Niani)